Report Painter

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTROD INT RODUCT UCTION ION ............. .................... .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ......... ..4 4 1. Librar Lib raries ies .............. .................... ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ......... ..8 8 2. Create Crea te Variable Vari able ............. .................... ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. .........1 ...18 8 3. Create Cre ate Report Rep ort .............. ..................... ............. ............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ..........22 ....22 4. Report Group .............. .................... ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............. ............. ............. ............76 .....76 5. Transporti Trans porting ng Reports Repo rts ............. .................... .............. ............. ............. .............. ............. ............. .............. .............. ............. ............. .............90 ......90


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INTRODUCTION Report painter is the main tool for defining reports in the information system in controlling controlling module. mod ule. All of the controlling reports (Cost center accounting, internal orders and profit center accounting) are created using report painter. You can also create reports in FI. With Report Painter you can define reports quickly and easily across rows and columns. You can use standard reports delivered by SAP as a base, copy them and do minor modifications, modifications, so as to suit your requirement. Very often it is felt felt that the standard reports delivered by SAP do not meet the user’s requirement. Therefore you need to create new reports.


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Scenario:

A Ltd. is allocating cost using distribution cycle for allocating cost between cost centers. If you recollect from what we learnt in the Cost center accounting configuration book distribution is a method of allocation which uses the original cost element for allocation between cost center. The canteen cost center (1000) incurs various cost which are shown below under debit. This cost is allocated to the Admin cost center (1001) 40%, Engineering cost center (1002) 60%. Canteen cost center 1000 ______________________________________________________________ Debit Debi t $ Credit $ 450001 Salaries Salaries & Wages 100,000 100,000 460100 Groceries 400,000 400,000

500,000

450001 Salaries & Wages 460100 Groceries

500,000

Engineering cost center incurs costs on Salaries and wages 200,000, spare parts etc (300,000). Further it receives cost from allocation from the Canteen cost center (60% broken down into Salaries & Wages 60,000 Groceries 240,000


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Engineering cost center 1002 ______________________________________________________________ Debit Debi t $ Credit $ 450001 Salaries & Wages 260,000 (200,000 +60,000) 460100 Groceries 240,000 470100 Spare parts

300,000

800,000 If you see above in the engineering cost center (which is the receiver cost center) the salaries costs have got merged 260,000 (Cost incurred by it 200,000 which is a primary cost and cost received from the engineering cost center 60,000 which is a secondary cost center) You are not able to see the above break up. In SAP, a standard report is available which tries to give a break up. The name of the transaction code is:S_ALR_87013615 - Cost Centers: Breakdown by Partner The output of the report looks like this:-


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The above report shows cost on the receiver cost center. It shows its own cost and cost center received from other cost center. If you notice all the cost elements are just showing blank blue lines. Whereas under Telephone you find CTR 2-1210 which is the sending cost center. If you notice the report is very difficult to distinguish the primary and secondary costs. The user wants to see them in columnar form primary and secondary costs. Therefore we develop a new report for the user. u ser. We will see how to go about creating the new report


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1. Libraries Libraries is a base (or transfer structure) for Report Painter. In a Library you use a report table, which is defaulted by SAP and cannot be maintained. The Library provides a logical view of various database tables and includes all characteristics, key figures, and predefined columns. In Cost Center Accounting, table CCSS is used as the transfer structure. In a library, you collect the characteristics, key figures, and predefined columns from the report table, which you need for your Report Painter reports. The table name is stored in the header of each library.


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The fields from these libraries are used in creation of a report. The Path to display a Library is as follows :-

SAP Standard Menu à Accounting à Controlling à Cost Center Accounting Information system à Tools à Report Painter à Report Writer à Library GR23 - Display

à à

or

SAP standard menu à Information Systems à Ad Hoc Reports Painter à Report Writer à Library à GR23 – Display Displa y

à

Report

Let us see the Library 1VK which we are going to use for creating a report:-

Update the following:-

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What are Characteristics? Characteristics are

non-numerical fields. They represent criteria, by which you can select data records. Examples of characteristics are the controlling area and fiscal year. www.sapficoconsulta www.sapfi coconsultant.com nt.com

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Important Characteristics: Controlling Area (KOKRS) Fiscal Year (GJAHR) Period (PERBL) Cost Element (KSTAR) Cost Center (KOSTL) Activity Type (LSTAR) Statistical Key Figure (STAGR)

distinguishing different value categories ca tegories (such Value Type (WTTP): Indicator for distinguishing as actual costs, plan costs, target costs and so on) in database tables. Version (VRSN): year-dependent year-dependent indicators for plan pla n data Debit/Credit Indicator (CO): Indicator used to distinguish debit and credit postings in CO.


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What are Key figures?

are numeric fields, which can be evaluated in a report. Examples include overall costs and activity quantities.

Key figures

Key Figures: Costs (SWKG): The controlling area currency is the currency used for cost accounting in CO. Costs in Object Currency (SWOG): The object currency is the currency defined in the master record of a Controlling object Costs in Transaction Currency (SWTG): The transaction currency is the currency in which the given documents are posted. Activity Quantity (SLST): Posted quantities for activity types Statistical Quantity (SSME): Posted quantities for statistical key figures Click


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consist of a key figure and one or more characteristics. They are used for the fast definition of frequently-used columns. Examples include

Predefined columns


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total actual costs for the current fiscal year or plan fixed costs for the previous fiscal year. The standard reports delivered with Cost Center Accounting are summarized in the following libraries:-

1VK library - Full cost methods 1GK library - Marginal cost 1AB library - Variance analyses

Standard Naming Procedure of Library:Library:0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

For SAP internal use only Cost Center Accounting LIS LIS FI-LC Reconciliation Ledger Overhead Orders and Project Mgmt Product cost controlling Profit center accounting Activity Based costing

You can establish your own naming conventions for object names that do not begin with a numeral to create a Library.


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2. Create Variable SAP Easy access à Accounting à Controlling à Cost Center Accounting Information system à Tools à Report Painter à Report Writer à Variable GS11 - Create

à à

We will create a variable for cost element group group CL. Cost element group CL is a grouping of all cost elements grouped according to logical grouping. Revenues, Salaries & Wages, Logistical costs, Admin costs. This cost element grouping will be in used in the report so as to show the grouping of costs. If you do not require any grouping of cost elements you need not create any variable.


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3. Create Report Accounting à Controlling à Cost Center Accounting à Information System à Tools à Report Painter à GRR1 - Create Report Painter functions similar to Report Writer, but is easier to use. Most of the functions found in Report Writer have been built into Report Painter; however, you do not need to be familiar with all Report Writer concepts such as Sets in order to use Report Painter. Report Painter uses a graphical report structure, which forms the basis for your report definition and displays the rows and columns as they appear in the final report output. Advantages Advantages of Report Painter are:are :Flexible and simple report definition Report definition without using sets Direct layout control: The report rows and columns are displayed for your report definition just as they appear in the final report output. This makes test runs unnecessary. Let us now create a report in the report painter.


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Select the following


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KS – cost center


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Update the th e following: followin g:--


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We need to change the column width


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Change the Lead column width from 20 to 50


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Further we want to see individual cost centers rather than as a group


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Click We want to add variance % columns for Primary cost (actual/plan) and Secondary costs(actual/plan). Double click


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You can even manually enter the above formula Click Click Update the following:-


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Let us type in manually now


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The report created need to be inserted in a report group:You can create a report group through transaction code GR51 – Create or you can directly create from here

Report group incorporate all the reports within a library that access similar data but format these data differently. All reports within a report group are executed at the same time, thus giving you opportunity to jump between individual reports within the report repo rt display screen. Generally there is one to one co-relation between report and report group. Click


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Click The report group is generated. It will take you to the following screen:-


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Click on the

to execute


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Clicking on

will open the cost center group screen on the left like this


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You can open the cost center group by double clicking

Let us now do some formatting for the report such as title header etc.


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Update the th e following: followin g:-Take a drop down in Report:-


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The Report is ready


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Now we will go to the Report group

4. Report Group SAP Easy access à Accounting à Controlling à Cost Center Accounting à Information system à Tools à Report Painter à Report Writer à Report group à GR52 – Change Report groups incorporate all the reports within a library that access similar data but format these data differently. All reports within a report group are executed at the same time, thus giving you the opportunity to jump between individual reports within the report display screen. Generally there is one to one co-relation between report and report group. In this step we will also assign some additional reports and transaction codes, so that the user can drill down to these additional transaction or reports:We will assign:1) Transaction code - KSBP (Plan line items) 2) Transaction Transaction code – KSB1 (Actual line items) 3) Report group - 1SIP (actual/plan/variance)


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Click enter.


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Update the description:-


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5. Transporting Reports SAP Easy access à Accounting à Controlling à Cost Center Accounting à Information system à Tools à Report Painter à Utilities à Transport à Report groups à GCTR - Transport request A report can be transported from one system to another (i.e. Development to Quality system) using this transaction code.

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Select the report


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to create the request

That brings us to an end to report painter creation.

Let us summarize how we went about creating the repo

1) We first identified the Library Library which has the relev key figures – 1VK 2) We created a variable which was required to be

3) We created a report ZCC8-PK1 (a form) using th saving the report we added the report to a report

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